GROUP EXAMPLE OF SYNECDOCHEThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner (click link for entire text) There passed a weary time. Each throat
Was parched, and glazed each eye.
A weary time ! a weary time ! How glazed each weary eye,
When looking westward, I beheld
A something in the sky. The ancient Mariner beholdeth a sign in the element afar off.
At first it seemed a little speck, It moved and moved, and took at last
A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist !
And still it neared and neared : It plunged and tacked and veered.
At its nearer approach, it seemeth him to be a ship ; and at a dear ransom he freeth his speech from the bonds of thirst.
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
We could nor laugh nor wail ;
Through utter drought all dumb we stood ! And cried, A sail ! a sail ! A flash of joy ;
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
Agape they heard me call :
Gramercy ! they for joy did grin, As they were drinking all. And horror follows. For can it be a ship that comes onward without wind or tide ?
See ! see ! (I cried) she tacks no more !
Hither to work us weal ;
Without a breeze, without a tide, The western wave was all a-flame.
The day was well nigh done !
Almost upon the western wave
Rested the broad bright Sun ; Betwixt us and the Sun ANALYSIS OF PURPOSE
In poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s work, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, his overall purpose for writing is to convey that no matter what the size, God loves everything and that we as individuals should as well. The poem begins with a mariner telling his story to a man at a wedding. It went like this; as the mariner and his crew began their journey, things were going well. A small storm pushes them off course and lands them in Antarctica. Luckily, an albatross came, and led them out and back on course. Although the crew very much liked the bird, the mariner shot it down and from then on the journey only grew worse. Coleridge uses synecdoche in the line, “The western wave was all a-flame,” the wave referring to the entire ocean. The use of synecdoche helps to further the author’s purpose, for it represents God’s rage toward the mariner for killing one of his many creatures. To represent his rage, he creates a large storm on the ocean, as a punishment. As the story progresses the mariner passes the lesson that he learned on to the wedding guest; "He prayeth best/ who loveth best/ All things both great and small;/ For the dear God who loveth us,/ He made and loveth all." Pray alot and love everything, large and small, for God that loves us, made and loves all. This is a powerful lesson, something that not only relates to the story, but everyday life as well.
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There passed a weary time. Each throat
Was parched, and glazed each eye.
A weary time ! a weary time !
How glazed each weary eye,
When looking westward, I beheld
A something in the sky.
The ancient Mariner beholdeth a sign in the element afar off.
At first it seemed a little speck,
It moved and moved, and took at last
A certain shape, I wist.
A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist !
And still it neared and neared :
It plunged and tacked and veered.
At its nearer approach, it seemeth him to be a ship ; and at a dear ransom he freeth his speech from the bonds of thirst.
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
We could nor laugh nor wail ;
Through utter drought all dumb we stood !
And cried, A sail ! a sail !
A flash of joy ;
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
Agape they heard me call :
Gramercy ! they for joy did grin,
As they were drinking all.
And horror follows. For can it be a ship that comes onward without wind or tide ?
See ! see ! (I cried) she tacks no more !
Hither to work us weal ;
Without a breeze, without a tide,
The western wave was all a-flame.
The day was well nigh done !
Almost upon the western wave
Rested the broad bright Sun ;
Betwixt us and the Sun
ANALYSIS OF PURPOSE
In poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s work, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, his overall purpose for writing is to convey that no matter what the size, God loves everything and that we as individuals should as well. The poem begins with a mariner telling his story to a man at a wedding. It went like this; as the mariner and his crew began their journey, things were going well. A small storm pushes them off course and lands them in Antarctica. Luckily, an albatross came, and led them out and back on course. Although the crew very much liked the bird, the mariner shot it down and from then on the journey only grew worse. Coleridge uses synecdoche in the line, “The western wave was all a-flame,” the wave referring to the entire ocean. The use of synecdoche helps to further the author’s purpose, for it represents God’s rage toward the mariner for killing one of his many creatures. To represent his rage, he creates a large storm on the ocean, as a punishment. As the story progresses the mariner passes the lesson that he learned on to the wedding guest; "He prayeth best/ who loveth best/ All things both great and small;/ For the dear God who loveth us,/ He made and loveth all." Pray alot and love everything, large and small, for God that loves us, made and loves all. This is a powerful lesson, something that not only relates to the story, but everyday life as well.